Mobilization for Food Production—a Plan for a Civil-Military Service INDORSED by the conference of state agricultural officers and representatives of agricultural colleges , and such authorities as Sir Horace Plunkett the famous English agriculturist , and introduced in congress , a plan for mobilization for food production devised by the University of Illinois may be adopted by the nation . It is as follows : This plan is based upon the following facts : ! . _ The present production of food in the United States is not increasing in proportion to the increase in population . 2 . In going to war , the production of food is our strongest asset particularly in view of the reduced food production in Canada and in western Europe . 3 . The experience of all time indicates that every nation . in going to war puts men into active military service without regard to the disturbance of basic industrial conditions , even the production of the food of the people . 4 . Indiscriminate enlistment f...

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KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY P . W . Goebel , President of the American Bankers Association , to the Bankers of America §| .. PATRIOTISM is the common heritage . It is a truism that the people are devoted to their country and to its success in any undertaking . Bankers , by spoken word and concrete act , have shown their patriotism . They are ready to contribute their resources , their energy and their experience to the common cause . But the great emergency the country now faces demands much more than the promise of sacrifice . Wisdom is needed as well as courcifje . In every community bankers share in business leadership . Their counsel is sought by thousands . More than on those engaged in other lines of endeavor is it incum bent upon them to guide lie confidence , prevent public ways of sound thinking and In everything that pertains dence in enterprise and wise banker oices a new and the country . Be . must keep free and he must do it witlidation to his customers . Speculative ventures ...

What is the Duty of the American Banker ? Read This—Take it to Heart ! By Peter W . Goebel President American Bankers Association This address — patriotic , level-headed , inspiring — was delivered before the bankers of Missouri . They applauded it—so will every banker . But there must be more than applause — there must be DEEDS ! The leader of American bankers points the way—ACT ! WE are in war ! We probably have not realized it yet , all of us , but the realization will come to us quickly—and the sooner the better . We are in war , and war is going to be our principal business for some time to come , God only knows how long , and we must think of war . We must make the business of war our first business and give it our first consideration . We must augment the production of those things that go to make war and that go to gain victory our first consideration , and sacrifice everything , take the producers out of everything that goes to make up mere luxuries or bring about only mere...

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The Opportunity of the Farmer and the Duty of the Banker By George M . Reynolds President Continental and Commercial National Bank , Chicago WE are now engaged in the greatest war in the history of the world , and if it is brought to a victorious conclusion we must all cooperate in a whole hearted manner , lt will not do to sit back and expect characteristic American luck or the exertions of our neighbors and friends to win the fight . In all warlike operations , there are four great essentials : men , money , munitions and food . The men may volunteer , investors of the country may , even to the point of self denial , lend their money , to the Government , and through ingenuity and energy , great stores of munitions may be supplied , but the fourth great essential , food , must come from the efforts of the farmer . Men and munitions are the sinews of war , but you cannot support the former on the field of battle without great stores of food , nor can you supply the latter without h...

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A County Agent in Every Agricultural County ! The Nation Needs Them panrainiiiisgiggiiniiBM j What the Banker Can Do j r ~ T \ HE best , quickest and most practical plan to _ £ _ bring better farming methods—which mean j better yields and , therefore , more food—is § I through the county agent . Less than half of the i agricultural counties in the United States have agents , i State associations : start a campaign to increase the number of agents in your state . Urge each county § to start a movement . I I Individual bankers : write to the state leader of ] extension work in your state for details . Confer j with your leading farmers . Send for a copy of I the February BANKER-FARMER which contains a 1 model constitution for a farm bureau and other in- j formation . j ^ LiiuMiisiiunurukuiiinininnmiMiiiiiLiiiitiiLiiiLTitiiiiiiLiiiiiiiiuuii iiumiiigiiiiniiiiiMmiiiiiiiLiiiuiiiiiiiiiiitiLiiiniiiHiMiiiiiitiLiiiiiiiiiuiiiHHiiiiiitTPi | | | | | | | | | | | | ARMIES must have captainsagricul...

. ¦¦¦ ,,,. ii-iiiiiiiiimiiiuiiiiiiiiuuuiiiiimiiiuuiuuiuuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiii ]| iiiiimHllllllllllllli [ IIMIUI ! ltllll ] m ]|]|[|] liMlll Wanted—3 , 000 County Agents ! THE government estimates that there are about 3 , 000 agricultural counties and 1278 have county agents at present . It wants to double the number of agents . More Federal funds will be available . Pave the way in your county . Uncle Sam s Department of Agriculture believes that the county agent is the best insurance against food shortage . Don t Forget the Birds N INETY per cent of the normal bird life of this country has already been destroyed and the other ten per cent will go in a few years unless drastic measures are employed to stop the slaughter . The farmers and fruit growers of this country are losing over $ 1 , 000 , 000 , 000 a year by reason of the ravages of insects . Food for your family and feed for your livestock is the first step toward Safe Farming .

The Flag Speaks aimimwi in 1 Fianklin K . Lane Secretary of the Interior I AM all that you hope to be , and have the courage to try for . I am the day s work of the weakest man , and the largest dream of the most daring . I am the Constitution and the courts , statutes and the statute makers , soldier and dreadnought , drayman ¦ and street sweep , cook , counselor , and clerk . I am the battle of yesterday , and the mistake of tomorrow . I am the mystery of the men who- do without knowing why . I am the clutch of an idea , and the reasoned purpose of resolution . I am no more than what you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be . I am what you make me , nothing more . I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color , a symbol of . yourself , the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this mtion . My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors . They are bright with cheer , brilliant with courage , firm zoith faith , because you have made them ...

To the Bankers of America JU 1 N ftands with your agricultural committee and with those scientists of your college who are devoting their lives to these problems , which have suddenly become a vital issue to the Nation . TO WORK ! For three years , while this horrible tragedy abroad has been occupying the world s stage , we have been complacentl y going about our business , selling our goods and our foodstuffs , and pursuing our pleasures , while our brothers of France and England , our new brothers of Russia , our stricken brothers of Poland and Belgium have been drenched in blood . While we have been living in peace and plenty , millions upon millions of people abroad —the old and the young—men , women and children—have been crying for food . Starvation—rank starvation , illness , misery , death , have been their portion . It is as if we had been making merry in a house of mourning . Now , at last , we , too , are engaged in this terrible conflict , which God grant , may result in...

Help the Fanner to Win the War THE people of the United States are not yet aroused to the deadly seriousness of the conditions which the nation faces . They hardly comprehend what it means that we have thrown down the gage of battle to the most marvelous , merciless military machine in the world . They cannot , realize as yet that it will require every last ounce of our energy , billions of our treasure and rivers of our blood to win the victory that must be won . When Earl Kitchener at the opening of the war expressed his belief that it would be fought for three years at least , his statement was regarded as ultra-conservative by the world . Yet Kitchener s prediction has been realized . It does not seem humanly possible—yet the war may continue another three years . Food will win the war . We must feed ourselves and feed our allies . Countless bankers all over the United States are cooperating with farmers to increase our production . Most of the banks in the United States are in ...

More County Agents I H ELP to organize your county for a farm bureau and a county agent . No one other agency will prove as valuable to help the farmers do their part towards winning the war . Write to the state leader of extension work at your state college of agriculture . Youll find his name and address on page 7 . Send for a copy of the February issue of THE BANKER-FARMER . It tells how to get an agent . Long before war came the Agricultural Commission urged upon the bankers of America the importance of a campaign to place eventually an agent in every agricultural county in the United States . It is far more important now that this campaign be accelerated . The presence of an agent in a county means that its farmers are being guided along the sanest lines . It means efficiency . The cooperation of bankers has been found to be valuable when county agent movements were started in the past . It will be more valuable and more welcome today . Help to get a county agent ! Let your far...

The Sanctification of America s Wealth—the Liberty Loan ! By Herbert Quick M ujvtiv used to save liberty to the world becomes sacred . The Liberty .- Loan is money devoted to that great cause . We have gained the reputation of being money grubbers . We have been called Yankee hogs . We have been suspected of being devoted to greed rather than patriotism . For three years last past we have been drawing to ourselves a stream of wealth greater than any people ever received before . The rest of the world was being drained dry , starved thin , and bled white ; but we waxed richer and richer . And now arises the supreme opportunity of all our history . We suddenly find ourselves in the ; position of trustees of all this wealth , and in no sense its owners . Destiny has been very good to America . Fate has made us the richest people on earth , the hugest reservoir of industrial power the planet ever bore . The rest of the world and some of us have thought that Destiny meant to let us get a...

Banks : Start Sheep Clubs—the Nation Needs More Mutton , More Wool The Banker Inspects the Sheep WHEN the Bethany State bank of Bethany , Illinois , offered for sale to boys and girls ioo ewes at the exact cost , it was hardly prepared for the interest which resulted . Every ewe was placed with a boy or girl within forty-eight hours after the banks offer ¦ was made public . The bank s proposition was stated as follows : BOYS AND GIRLS SHEEP CLTJB We will offer for sale , one hundred head of choice Ohio Delano ewes to the boys and girls of this community at exactly what they cost us . Our object in this is to stimulate an increased interest in farming and animal husbandry in our boys and girls , as it is plain to all who study the signs of the times , that we must produce more of everything than we hitherto have been doing . It is plain to all that we now have a world shortage of everything . In view of the fact that the United States is at least 10 , 000 , 000 sheep short of normal ...